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fannish5: Name 5 characters you didn't like at first, but eventually learned to love.
1) Sawyer (Lost): I spent the entire first season desperately hoping Sawyer would get eater by a polar bear. He was an aggressively unlikeable bully who enjoyed making people grovel for things like medication, and every time he came up with a new nickname I wished someone would push him off of a cliff. And yet during the finale I actually found myself saying "Poor Sawyer" out loud, and meant it. His striking up a genuine friendship with Hurley and Jin was the turning point (notice that he never uses a nickname for Hurley anymore?), I think, as was his rather selfless attempts to protect Kate, as well as him was almost comically bad at it. And I admit, the first half of S2 being one long Sawyer beatdown also helped.:)
2) Saul Tigh (Battlestar Galactica) At the beginning Saul is pretty much a stock hard-ass officer who's there to show what a good leader Adama is and to give Starbuck someone to but heads with, but somewhere along the way he's become one of my favorites. His confession to Adama in the midseason finale just about killed me.
3) Nyssa (Doctor Who): I didn't really dislike Nyssa; she's such a passive character that at first I barely noticed her. That is, until she pulled a gun on the Time Lord High Council to try to protect the Doctor. That's my girl.
4) Joscelin Verreuil (Kushiel's Legacy series) When we meet Joscelin he's a humorless bore who's not only openly repulsed by Phedre, but kind of whiny about it. Moreover, I was rooting for Hyacinthe and Phedre to get together at the time, and he was clearly being posited as a love interest. Well, you know what they say about first impressions.:) By the end of the first trilogy he may well have been my favorite character.
5) Todd Manning (One Life to Live): One of the more fun things about soaps is that the storylines are flexible. A good percentage of beloved characters were introduced as short-term villains or better yet, foils for now-forgotten characters who were supposed to be the next big thing. Todd was introduced as a stuck-up frat boy and in short order instigated the gang rape of another character, which is usually a one-way ticket to villainy. However, the way Roger Howarth played the character struck a cord and the writers found ways to keep him on the show, kicking off one of the most grueling and successful character rehabilitations in show history. He's still not that great a guy and his past isn't glossed over, but he's a great character who keeps me coming back to OLTL just when I think I'm over it.
fannish5: Name 5 characters you didn't like at first, but eventually learned to love.1) Sawyer (Lost): I spent the entire first season desperately hoping Sawyer would get eater by a polar bear. He was an aggressively unlikeable bully who enjoyed making people grovel for things like medication, and every time he came up with a new nickname I wished someone would push him off of a cliff. And yet during the finale I actually found myself saying "Poor Sawyer" out loud, and meant it. His striking up a genuine friendship with Hurley and Jin was the turning point (notice that he never uses a nickname for Hurley anymore?), I think, as was his rather selfless attempts to protect Kate, as well as him was almost comically bad at it. And I admit, the first half of S2 being one long Sawyer beatdown also helped.:)
2) Saul Tigh (Battlestar Galactica) At the beginning Saul is pretty much a stock hard-ass officer who's there to show what a good leader Adama is and to give Starbuck someone to but heads with, but somewhere along the way he's become one of my favorites. His confession to Adama in the midseason finale just about killed me.
3) Nyssa (Doctor Who): I didn't really dislike Nyssa; she's such a passive character that at first I barely noticed her. That is, until she pulled a gun on the Time Lord High Council to try to protect the Doctor. That's my girl.
4) Joscelin Verreuil (Kushiel's Legacy series) When we meet Joscelin he's a humorless bore who's not only openly repulsed by Phedre, but kind of whiny about it. Moreover, I was rooting for Hyacinthe and Phedre to get together at the time, and he was clearly being posited as a love interest. Well, you know what they say about first impressions.:) By the end of the first trilogy he may well have been my favorite character.
5) Todd Manning (One Life to Live): One of the more fun things about soaps is that the storylines are flexible. A good percentage of beloved characters were introduced as short-term villains or better yet, foils for now-forgotten characters who were supposed to be the next big thing. Todd was introduced as a stuck-up frat boy and in short order instigated the gang rape of another character, which is usually a one-way ticket to villainy. However, the way Roger Howarth played the character struck a cord and the writers found ways to keep him on the show, kicking off one of the most grueling and successful character rehabilitations in show history. He's still not that great a guy and his past isn't glossed over, but he's a great character who keeps me coming back to OLTL just when I think I'm over it.
